Regulating membership and movement at the meso-level: citizen-making and the household registration system in East Asia

This paper analyzes how East Asian states have regulated membership and migration through meso-level institutions. Specifically, we examine how states have used the household registration system (China's hukou system, South Korea's hoju/hojeok system, and Japan's koseki system) in the...

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Published in:Citizenship studies 2020-01, Vol.24 (1), p.76-92
Main Authors: Chung, Erin Aeran, Draudt, Darcie, Tian, Yunchen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
China
Citizen participation
Citizenship
Cold War
East Asia
Ethnicity
Japan
Kinship
Korea
Membership
meso
Migration
Political development
Registration
Scholarship
State building
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Summary:This paper analyzes how East Asian states have regulated membership and migration through meso-level institutions. Specifically, we examine how states have used the household registration system (China's hukou system, South Korea's hoju/hojeok system, and Japan's koseki system) in the process of nation-state building in the early post-World War Two period, as a security measure to control movement throughout the Cold War, and as a tool to build or sever trans-border kinship ties in the contemporary era. Drawing on the literature on multi-level citizenship, the article contributes to the growing scholarship that unpacks the civic-ethnic divide in comparative citizenship studies by examining how meso-level institutions shape national-level membership in countries that are commonly characterized as having 'ethnic' citizenship regimes.
ISSN:1362-1025
1469-3593
DOI:10.1080/13621025.2019.1700914